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AmenanceAmenance Am"e*nance, n. [OF. See Amenable.]
Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] --Spenser. AppertinanceAppertinance Ap*per"ti*nance, Appertinence Ap*per"ti*nence,
n.
See Appurtenance. AppurtenanceAppurtenance Ap*pur"te*nance, n. [OF. apurtenaunce,
apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L.
appertinere. See Appertain.]
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an
appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing
more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation,
something belonging to another thing as principal, and which
passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other
easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse,
barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict
legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.
--Tomlins. --Bouvier. --Burrill.
Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy.
--Bacon.
The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances.
--Reid. Consonance
Consonance Con"so*nance, Consonancy Con"so*nan*cy, n. [L.
consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced
simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
eighth.
2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
suitableness.
The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.
The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
is in consonance. --Tyndall.
3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]
By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak.
Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
Convenance
Convenance Con"ve*nance, n. [F., fitness, suitableness.]
That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.
And they missed Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid
the loss. --Emerson.
Coordinance
Coordinance Co*["o]r"di*nance, n.
Joint ordinance.
CountenanceCountenance Coun"te*nance (koun"t?-nans), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Countenanced (-nanst); p. pr. & vb. n. Countenancing.]
1. To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is
not made out either by experience or reason. --Sir
T. Browne.
Error supports custom, custom countenances error.
--Milton.
2. To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.]
Which to these ladies love did countenance.
--Spenser. CountenancedCountenance Coun"te*nance (koun"t?-nans), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Countenanced (-nanst); p. pr. & vb. n. Countenancing.]
1. To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is
not made out either by experience or reason. --Sir
T. Browne.
Error supports custom, custom countenances error.
--Milton.
2. To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.]
Which to these ladies love did countenance.
--Spenser. Countenancer
Countenancer Coun"te*nan*cer (-nan-s?r), n.
One who countenances, favors, or supports.
Demeanance
Demeanance De*mean"ance, n.
Demeanor. [Obs.] --Skelton.
Discernance
Discernance Dis*cern"ance, n.
Discernment. [Obs.]
Discountenance
Discountenance Dis*coun"te*nance, n.
Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment;
disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
He thought a little discountenance on those persons
would suppress that spirit. --Clarendon.
Discountenancer
Discountenancer Dis*coun"te*nan*cer, n.
One who discountenances; one who disfavors. --Bacon.
Disordinance
Disordinance Dis*or"di*nance, n.
Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Dissonance
Dissonance Dis"so*nance, n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F.
dissonance.]
1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious
combination of sounds; discord.
Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. --Milton.
2. Want of agreement; incongruity. --Milton.
Dominance
Dominance Dom"i*nance, Dominancy Dom"i*nan*cy, n.
Predominance; ascendency; authority.
FinanceFinance Fi*nance", v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Financed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Financing.]
To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the
capital for; to financier.
Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous
undertakings. --B. H.
Chamberlain. FinanceFinance Fi*nance", n. [F., fr. LL. financia payment of money,
money, fr. finare to pay a fine or subsidy (cf. OF. finer to
finish, pay), fr. L. finis end. See Fine, n., Finish.]
1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public
money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used
in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown.
--Bacon.
2. The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
``Versed in the details of finance.' --Macaulay. FinancedFinance Fi*nance", v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Financed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Financing.]
To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the
capital for; to financier.
Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous
undertakings. --B. H.
Chamberlain. Governance
Governance Gov"ern*ance, n. [F. gouvernance.]
Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.
--Chaucer. --J. H. Newman.
Gubernance
Gubernance Gu"ber*nance, n.
Government. [Obs.]
Inconsonance
Inconsonance In*con"so*nance, Inconsonancy In*con"so*nan*cy,
n.
Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought;
disagreement.
Indignance
Indignance In*dig"nance, Indignancy In*dig"nan*cy, n.
Indignation. [Obs.] --Spenser.
MalignanceMalignance Ma*lig"nance, Malignancy Ma*lig"nan*cy, n. [See
Malignant.]
1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme
malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of
heart.
2. Unfavorableness; evil nature.
The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner
yours. --Shak.
3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the
malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
4. The state of being a malignant.
Syn: Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice. Misgovernance
Misgovernance Mis*gov"ern*ance, n.
Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Spenser.
OrdonnanceOrdonnance Or"don*nance, n. [F. See Ordinance.] (Fine Arts)
The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard
to one another and the whole.
Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. --Coleridge. PenancePenance Pen"ance, n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia
repentance. See Penitence.]
1. Repentance. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] ``Joy or penance he
feeleth none.' --Chaucer.
3. (Eccl.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and
obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the
performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary
submission to a punishment corresponding to the
transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments
in the Roman Catholic Church. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
And bitter penance, with an iron whip. --Spenser.
Quoth he, ``The man hath penance done, And penance
more will do.' --Coleridge. PenancePenance Pen"ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.]
To impose penance; to punish. ``Some penanced lady elf.'
--Keats. PenancedPenance Pen"ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.]
To impose penance; to punish. ``Some penanced lady elf.'
--Keats. Penanceless
Penanceless Pen"ance*less, a.
Free from penance. [R.]
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